"Our mission is to conduct high quality multi-center studies that have an impact on science, clinical practice, and public health."

The San Francisco Coordinating Center is a non-profit, academic research organization with over 20 years of experience in conducting multicenter studies and clinical trials. The Coordinating Center is a collaborative enterprise among researchers from the CPMC Research Institute and the UCSF School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

The Coordinating Center has a large repository of data, biospecimens, radiographic images and -omics data from our long term studies on important health outcomes.

We have conducted or are currently conducting studies in these areas:

• Aging/longevity
• Cardiovascular disease
• Cognitive function/dementia
• Endocrine disorders
• Insomnia/sleep disorders
• Genetics
• Osteoarthritis
• Osteoporosis
• Parkinson's disease
• Research methods in biostatistics and study design